Top 10 Crazy Art Christmas Trees

Christmas time is a wonderful time for art. All sorts of artists use all sorts of things to express how Christmas makes them feel. But sometimes they make something so unusual that it is hard to understand the reason behind it…

 


 

Top 10 Crazy Art Christmas Trees
Fra Biancoshock’s Christmas Tree

10 – Fra Biancoshock – www.brooklynstreetart.com/theblog/2014/12/25/merry-christams-happy-holidays-bsa

OK, so this one did make me smile. But it is still painfully cheap in style.

Top 10 Crazy Art Christmas Trees
Michael Neff’s Christmas Tree

9 – Michael Neff – www.recyclart.org/2012/01/recycled-christmas-tree-installation-michael-neff

It seems for some artists Christmas is not a time to be celebrating at all.

Top 10 Crazy Art Christmas Trees
Gareth Pugh’s Christmas Tree

8 – Gareth Pugh – www.vam.ac.uk/content/articles/c/christmas-tree-installation-by-gareth-pugh

This is one of those artists designed Christmas trees that looks amazing to some people and weird to many others.

Top 10 Crazy Art Christmas Trees
Patrick Renner’s Christmas Tree

7 – Patrick Renner – www.artsjournal.com/aestheticgrounds/merry_christmas_with_the_antar

Turning Christmas trees into a giant Jack from a Jack & Ball Game doesn’t make it any more fun.

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Top 10 Crazy Art Christmas Trees
Jordan Greene’s Christmas Tree

6 – Jordan Greene – www.behance.net/gallery/String-Art/3480293

While I love string art, doing it as a Christmas tree instal simply doesn’t work.

Top 10 Crazy Art Christmas Trees
Hiroyuki Morikawa’s Christmas Tree

5 – Hiroyuki Morikawa – blog.japantimes.co.jp/japan-pulse/deck-the-halls-with-bottles-of-plastic

There are loads of artists who have made Christmas trees from recycled plastic bottles, but they all looked like trees! But then again he is an artist of light so maybe it only made sense in the dark.

Top 10 Crazy Art Christmas Trees
Masaru Ozaki’s Christmas Tree

4 – Masaru Ozaki – tokyofashion.com/masaru-ozaki-christmas-tree-cubes-at-parco-shibuya

While crazy in shape and style they do at least capture the colourful elements of a normal Christmas tree.

Top 10 Crazy Art Christmas Trees
Mooz’s Christmas Tree

3 – Mooz – anguswhines.typepad.com/angus_whines/installation

Made from over 5,000 locally donated ceramic dishes, plates and Cups is a Christmas Tree that just reminds people how much washing up they will be doing after Christmas day dinner!

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Top 10 Crazy Art Christmas Trees
1024 Architecture’s Christmas Tree

2 – 1024 Architecture – www.dailyinspiration.nl/christmas-tree-art-installation-in-the-city-of-bruxels-belgium

This is a hard one because it does look strangely beautiful, but strangely nothing like a beautiful Christmas tree.

Top 10 Crazy Art Christmas Trees
Paul McCarthy’s Christmas Tree

1 – Paul McCarthy – hahamag.com/paris-deflates-mccarthys-called-christmas-tree-installation-cause-looks-like

While many saw it as a Christmas tree others saw it as a sexual toy. Either way, they sadly took it down, but even I have trouble understanding why it is shaped like that.

Author: Gus Barge

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